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-#+TITLE: Voice profile Phase 1 — corpus-grounded delta proposal
+#+TITLE: Voice Profile — canonical source-of-truth for the voice skill
 #+DATE: 2026-05-29
 #+SOURCE: rulesets session 2026-05-29
 
+* How this combines with SKILL.md (pairing rule)
+
+This file is the canonical source-of-truth for the voice skill's rationale, evidence, examples, and history. =voice/SKILL.md= holds the thin rule-set: one-line directives per pattern, mode applicability, and a pointer back here. Everything else (Problem, Basis, Before/After, Detection guidance, History) lives in the per-pattern sections below.
+
+Pairing rule. Every change to =voice/SKILL.md= MUST land alongside the corresponding update in this file. The two are normatively paired. A SKILL.md edit without a profile update is incomplete. A profile update without a SKILL.md edit is fine (rationale or evidence can deepen without changing the rule).
+
+Pattern numbering in both files matches: SKILL.md's =### N. <Name>= maps to this file's =* §N <Name>= section. Mode tags use the same vocabulary: =general=, =prose=, =personal=.
+
+When the agent runs =/voice=, it reads SKILL.md for the rules and consults this file for the examples and basis it needs to apply each pattern correctly.
+
 * Corpus
 
 Git commit bodies authored by Craig Jennings across all repos under =~/code/= and =~/projects/=. After cleanup (subject lines, trailers, URL-only lines, AI-attribution lines, blank-run collapse):
@@ -87,3 +97,38 @@ Six concrete edits to =voice/SKILL.md=, all of which can land independently:
 - Slack messages — casual register, contraction rate, sentence-fragment rate.
 - Syntactic detection — distinguish fragments from terse complete sentences for pattern #37.
 - Long-form documents (résumé, proposals if any) — single register but high prose density.
+
+* Per-pattern entries
+
+The 41 patterns are migrated below from SKILL.md per the pairing rule above. Phase 1 of this migration populates only Pattern §13 as a worked example of the form. The remaining 40 patterns are scheduled for the backfill pass once Craig confirms the shape.
+
+** §13 Em Dash Overuse
+
+*** Modes
+General mode: overuse-reduction.
+Prose + personal modes: zero-tolerance.
+
+*** Rule
+Replace em-dashes (=—=) with a comma, period, colon, or parentheses, whichever fits. Zero-tolerance in prose and personal modes holds *everywhere in the text*, including inside example blocks, code-fence prose, and quoted material. An em-dash in a quoted line still gets replaced.
+
+*** Problem
+LLMs use em dashes more than the median human writer, mimicking "punchy" sales writing.
+
+*** Basis
+Corpus measurement (2026-05-29 git commits, 128k words): 3.49 em-dashes per 1000 words. Comparable to AI-generated prose. The zero-tolerance rule in prose and personal modes is self-discipline, not habit-reflection. Craig has decided his published voice drops em-dashes by choice because the result reads cleaner and avoids the most common AI tell, regardless of his pre-rule frequency.
+
+*** Before
+#+begin_example
+The term is primarily promoted by Dutch institutions—not by the people themselves. You don't say "Netherlands, Europe" as an address—yet this mislabeling continues—even in official documents.
+#+end_example
+
+*** After
+#+begin_example
+The term is primarily promoted by Dutch institutions, not by the people themselves. You don't say "Netherlands, Europe" as an address, yet this mislabeling continues in official documents.
+#+end_example
+
+*** History
+- Original SKILL.md entry: rule scoped to general overuse-reduction.
+- 2026-05-26 (commit =4fac2a0=): prose mode added, rule strengthened to zero-tolerance in prose and personal.
+- 2026-05-29 (commit =c3cf9a5=): Note on basis added with corpus measurement.
+- 2026-05-29: migrated to this file as the canonical home per the pairing rule.